Figure skating - Skate America 2015
Flavio Valle
Madison Chock and Evan Bates won the third successful career in a qualifying round of the Grand Prix without imposing too many worries at Skate America, the opening act of the twenty-first edition of the circuit.
Sunday 25 October 2015 6 minutes reading time
As expected, the "UW & ndash; Milwaukee Panther Arena" Milwaukee & egrave; It was the scene of a solo Students Igor Shpilband, who have thrived on the competition by a wide margin. However, after the overwhelming dominance of short-dance, free dance, skate to the tune of "Concerto no.2 for Pianoforrte and Orchestra" by Rachmaninov, she has reserved a problem in most ;, & ugrave accomplices twizzle less brilliant than usual and a diagonal couple unpunctual as of 'habit. Chock / Bates, appeared rather contracts, have achieved a remarkable feedback on program components, but on the technical side were outclassed by runners. In this regard, it must be remembered as the last three weeks the attention of the vice-world champions have been mainly concentrated on new short-dance, assembled in haste in order that & egrave; could be gi & agrave; ready for Skate America.
In second place, came the Russians Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov, who finally managed to complete a race without striking passages vacuum demonstrating that it can play an important role during the season of revival. Students Marina Zoueva have revealed a great unison and have seemed perfectly decreased in the best interpreting the song "There I Sar & ograve;" Andrea Bocelli. Change Log & egrave; It was clearly demonstrated by the growth of fifteen lengths compared to the best performance of the past, not to mention the best technical response in the free dance. Just regret the two penalties because of extended lifts that have prevented the Russian couple to break through the wall of significant percent in Segment pi & ugrave; long race.
The expected Canadian Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier have had to settle for third place, placement complicates exceedingly the path to the final in Barcelona, ​​achieved last season. In particular, the couple cares cone stationed in Ontario has been outclassed for two consecutive days from Sinitsina / Katsalapov on each item in the score. Additionally, you & egrave; suddenly interrupted that growth that characterized the 'last year.
Thank Chock / Bates, the United States filed the twenty fifth victory in the qualifying stages of the Grand Prix, which are added in the final five statements all "designer" Davis / White.
Next, they placed the couples American Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker and Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus, these authors of the new personal best. The Russians Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov, junior world champions in office, are not, however, gone beyond the sixth paying duty in an important way on the components of the program.
The final ranking, which faithfully reflected the result of the free dance, & egrave; It was closed by debutants Ukraine Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin, who have had the better of the Chinese Shiyue Wang / Xinyu Liu, couples from which it was expected something more & ugrave; on the technical side.
FINAL STANDINGS
1) USA - Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 173.22 (1 | 1) 2) RUS - Victoria SINITSINA / Nikita Katsalapov & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 162.21 (2 | 2) PB3) CAN - Piper Gilles / Paul POIRIER & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 157.58 (3 | 3) 4) USA - Kaitlin HAWAYEK / Jean-Luc BAKER & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 150.69 (4 | 4) 5) USA - Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin MCMANUS & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 143.67 (6 | 5) PB6) RUS - Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 140.92 (5 | 6) 7) UKR - Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim NIKITIN & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 135.60 (7 | 7) 8) CHN - Shiyue WANG / Xinyu LIU & nbsp; & nbsp; & Nbsp; 129.59 (8 | 8)
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